New shoes for the GT3Cup Arrived= Carbon Dymags! Nice Check em out
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There have been a few other posts with the wheels on the car already..
But here ya go!
But here ya go!
FYI
The wheels were part of our OverWin at the Time Attack Finale a few weeks ago!
And they performed flawlessly!
The wheels were part of our OverWin at the Time Attack Finale a few weeks ago!
And they performed flawlessly!
We will have Rennworx/Dymag at our open house -
If anyone is interested please stop by next saturday!
It will be a great oppurtunity to come and see the wheels and how they are made..
I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to our Open House and Grand Opening celebration taking place at our new 15,000 sq ft Performance Tuning and Motorsport Facility, which will be held on Saturday, Dec 9th from 12-5 pm. This will be an event for any automotive aficionado and will include a GMG shop tour, Car Show area (bring your car for display), GMG Tuned cars display, GMG race car display, food and drinks and a Manufacturers row where you can meet and talk with reps from some of our many tuning partners. In addition we will be showing footage from this years Speed GT championship and other clips of GMG racing on a big screen. So come out and enjoy a day with fellow friends and car enthusiasts as we are expecting over 400 people as well as over 300 Porsches, Ferrari's, Audis, BMW's, Bentley's and Lamborghinis, many of them from our current client base. GMG is the premier tuning facility and aftermarket parts supplier (Wheels/Tires, ECU's, Exhausts, Suspension, Turbos, etc.) for European Automobiles! For more about Global Motorsports Group, please visit www.gmgracing.com.
If anyone is interested please stop by next saturday!
It will be a great oppurtunity to come and see the wheels and how they are made..
I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to our Open House and Grand Opening celebration taking place at our new 15,000 sq ft Performance Tuning and Motorsport Facility, which will be held on Saturday, Dec 9th from 12-5 pm. This will be an event for any automotive aficionado and will include a GMG shop tour, Car Show area (bring your car for display), GMG Tuned cars display, GMG race car display, food and drinks and a Manufacturers row where you can meet and talk with reps from some of our many tuning partners. In addition we will be showing footage from this years Speed GT championship and other clips of GMG racing on a big screen. So come out and enjoy a day with fellow friends and car enthusiasts as we are expecting over 400 people as well as over 300 Porsches, Ferrari's, Audis, BMW's, Bentley's and Lamborghinis, many of them from our current client base. GMG is the premier tuning facility and aftermarket parts supplier (Wheels/Tires, ECU's, Exhausts, Suspension, Turbos, etc.) for European Automobiles! For more about Global Motorsports Group, please visit www.gmgracing.com.
Anything available for the 7GT3 yet?
Yes we have fitments available for 997GT3 and all current and new model porsche cars.
These are custom build to fit so we can fit to any car on the road today..
These are custom build to fit so we can fit to any car on the road today..
I have a set on order thru Ben at Wheels Botique in Miami. It's a long wait. The 9 spoke center I understand is the only available one in the US. Waiting on a gunmetal look center set (19x9 and 19x12). These will really compliment my 997 GT3. Also plan to re-dyno the car because I've heard about some serious rwHP gains. I was told this by Tony Kanaan. Will need to confirm these claims. Right now I have the HRE 890R's with titanium rivots, very light wheels. Anything is better than those heavy anchors that come on the car. Will post pics when the Dymags are here. Will also post pics presently of the car and cosmetic changes. Stay tuned.
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While a metal wheel may deform before a carbon wheel will shatter, which really depends on the wheel and the impact, virtually all alloy wheels are malleable to some degree. They'll bend before they completely fail. Composites will not. They'll either crack internally (hence x-raying) over time, and eventually fail completely without warning, or catastrophically fail all together.
So, as I said, they really have no place in a street application.
On a race car, personally, I'd have to weigh the weight reduction against the posibility of being able to finish a race with a slightly bent wheel, or at least make it to the pits.
Here's why I won't use carbon wheels on anything:
Looking at the dirt in the spokes of the wheel and around the rear of the bike, how did this happen? I'm sure no wheel would have survived that. I've seen many mag wheels fail also, every brand. Did this happen on the street or first couple laps of a track day? ( No rubber stuck on swingarm or exhaust ) Just wondering? Most important I hope nobody got hurt.Originally Posted by Simba
If someone said that, they don't understand their product very well. Carbon/epoxy composites-- ALL of them-- have exactly zero elasticity. Zero. If you bend them, the cured resin between the layers will fracture, similar to how paint will "spider crack" on rubber surfaces if bent beyond a certain degree. While a part may not completely fail on the first deformation, it is very easy for a part to cumulatively fail. While a metal wheel may deform before a carbon wheel will shatter, which really depends on the wheel and the impact, virtually all alloy wheels are malleable to some degree. They'll bend before they completely fail. Composites will not. They'll either crack internally (hence x-raying) over time, and eventually fail completely without warning, or catastrophically fail all together.
So, as I said, they really have no place in a street application.
On a race car, personally, I'd have to weigh the weight reduction against the posibility of being able to finish a race with a slightly bent wheel, or at least make it to the pits.
Here's why I won't use carbon wheels on anything:
